#anti mcu

[meltedbrains]

Child soldiers of the MCU

It's no surprise that there are a large number of teenage superheroes. The big guys get sidekicks. Mantles get inherited. Puberty gives you superpowers. If the main audience for the comics is children and teenagers, it's a logical next step to make the characters their age.

Teenage life is a tortuous balance of increasing responsibility, broadening horizons, and more accountability than ever before. It makes sense that a teenager with more strength and power than anyone else (or at least normal people) would try to right the wrongs of the world. Especially in a world where they've been able to idolise and look up to real life superheroes.

And they work as rebel teenagers who don't listen to authority because they believe that what they're doing is right. For me at least, they don't work when Tony Stark, Nick Fury and SHIELD recruit them to fight their battles, and run secret, dangerous, missions for them. Why do none of these adults (who ostensibly became heroes to help people) feel a duty of care for these young people and minors? I understand that teenagers with superpowers are liable to do whatever they want and it's better to keep an eye on them. But why have we lost the young heroes fighting against any would be authority figures?

Where is the Kate Bishop that told Captain America to get on board or get out of the way? Where are the secret identities? Where is the plausible deniability that this is just a short adult, or just a young person, not a minor?

The MCU managed to sidestep the Sokovia accords (which were then repealed anyway) by having the new heroes affiliated with known entities/individuals. Kamala Khan didn't even make it out of her own show before she became a defacto SHIELD agent. Peter Parker managed to course correct after 4 films and finally become the street level, unknown hero that he was envisioned as (TBD). It will be interesting to see how the young avengers shape up: Billy hasn't done any heroing yet, Tommy doesn't really exist, Eli is an easter egg with a few lines, Angela is an easter egg with a few more lines, Cassie is running around with her family, America is apparently learning magic. Who's to say how these characters will come together.

So far the adult's desire to keep the children safe seems to extend only so far as the climax of the story -if at all-, until they realise that the kids can fight.

I like teenage superheroes, I don't like rich, powerful individuals and agencies endorsing and using children for their own ends.

[amarriageoftrueminds]

#we’ll keep in mind that the MCU hands out their PhD’s to their characters like candy #in A1 her resume said that she dropped out of school at 15 and became a nurse #her high social standing got her into Bletchley #her brother got her into being a spy #and suddenly in the flashback scene in 1970 she had a PhD #in what? idk #and are we expected to believe that she took years out of her career to finish her education #when she’d already been given the lead role by Howard? #this is the thing about Peggy and why she appeals to her demographic #she gets all the results of someone who has worked hard #without actually having worked hard #it’s easy enough to tell us that Peggy deserves these things but they never show us why or how she earned it #because she didn’t #after EG a bunch of people discussed that this was an honorary PhD because of her lack of education #but they displayed a plaque on purpose #and it was to get the girlboss cred #that’s why this character is so frustrating #when she’s not vacuous she’s positively evil #anti peggy carter #+.+

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I always wonder why the mcu keeps trying to push their peggy carter oc,like I understand characters aren't always going to be comic accurate and can be changed for better or worse. But what the mcu did with peggy is so weird to me

Staring off with the fact that she takes inspiration from a nazi spy , they even said so themselves she just doesn't take inspiration form Cynthia tho most of he likable traits are from other characters as well.

Going back to the Cynthia glass thing it's also uncomfortable that this peggy is also an alternate version of captain america even though they call her captain carter you can't escape the fact that she's supposed to be an alternate version of captain america.

I can understand wanting to make an alternate version of cap but why would you use the character that you've stated has taken inspiration from a nazi spy to represent a Jewish symbol who was made to fight nazis and for the oppressed it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Thanks for the ask and sorry for the late reply!

I think the superhero genre, much like the Japanese equivalent of the shounen genre, is about power fantasies. That doesn't necessarily make them inherently trite or egocentric, though. A sensitive and knowledgeable writer can construct a power fantasy for marginalised folks, even those they are not a part of, and that's what people are asking for when they talk about "representation". People from all walks of life deserve an inspirational story and a power fantasy to project onto, to say that despite the barriers placed by society, it is still possible to fight against the restrictions and carve out a special identity for yourself. In a lot of the better written superhero stories, their powers are presented as something that is both a blessing and a curse/threat, and the story is about them accepting that difference and turning that into something good - as opposed to, often, their villains, who turn that into something used for bad.

And I think that's the key difference. Comics/manga are written for kids/adults who feel like they don't fit in (maybe manga especially, because of how suffocating Japanese society can be about fitting the norm). The fantasy lies in social odd-balls embracing their own uniqueness and doing good in spite of the world shunning them.

Once super-powered concepts hit Hollywood, the meaning changes. The writers are now (in general) people in positions of influence and affluence. They are confident in who they are, and in fact, they yearn to stand above the ilk. The power fantasy completely changes flavour - instead of an outcast learning to be happy with who they are, it is now about how a "normal" person gains something special that elevates them above the boring average folk.

The problem is - the former is usually sensitive to the struggles of marginalised folk ("we are different but we can be amazing"), while the latter is ignorant and self-serving ("I am amazing because I am not like other girls"). And because of the type of fantasy it is, it is not interested in exploring power as a potential flaw or a burden, it is simply about the celebration of strength.

This is all a long-winded way of saying, yes, PC is a power fantasy for a particular group of women - the middle-classed, primarily White, well-educated women, who do not want to be like other girls. She had to be made special at all costs - the private school/college education, the brother in MI6, the Howlies, the boxing champion, the directorship, and now finally the serum and the shield.

The implications didn't matter because the writers didn't care. She's their hero, this is a fantasy, and who cares if she recruited Nazis on her way to the top or that she wears a colonial symbol on her chest. Who knows, they (the writers) may even think of that as representation of her strength.

Remember how I said earlier how the heroes take their powers and make it into something good, while the villains use their strength and use it to do something bad? Welp.

[agent13ronnie]

”Doom being Romani isn’t important to his character or his backstory. He could easily be some white dude.”

Fantastic Four Annual #2 and Books of Doom: “Are you sure about that”

[cosmic0artist]

i had a nightmare that i met tom hiddleston somehow and he was in a room with me with a little desk and some paint and a canvas and bc this was my dream and i made the rules he was a phenomenal artist so i asked him to draw himself as loki for me and then he started drawing and painting loki and i was rlly excited but then as he kept going i realized it was loki from the show and i was so upset and disgusted that i woke up

[mwagneto]

fascinated by just how much marvel movies (and shows) managed to perfect the formula of making 2 male characters Just gay enough that the fans who want that will go UMMM IT'S NOT BAIT THEY'RE LITERALLY GAY LOOK!!!! but not too gay that homophobes even pick up on there being any subtext let alone get mad. extremely insidious form of bait. obvious examples being fatws and loki and more recently deadpool 3 and now venom 3

[thetimelordbatgirl]

So uh, Fantastic Four: First Steps just showed MCU is very capable of doing stretch powers...what's the excuse again for why Ms Marvel couldn't have them when it came to finally adding her to the MCU???

[hatchetfield-scarecrow]

MCU Doctor Doom casting…

[batcavescolony]

Young Avengers Comic Stans, are you ready for the influx of MCU people using our tag even though Kamala Khan has her own comic team?

[le-regrems]

You can be cool but you'll never be Hobie Brown in Spider verse cool

[memingursa]

Man doing so much self reflection he’s blaming himself for Taika’s job

[justsamwilson]

This blog was created for loving and appreciating the character of Sam Wilson.

And while for years, we have been anticipating the next time we'll get to see Anthony Mackie on screen, playing our favourite character, and proving to everyone how he IS Captain America, this is a reminder that Captain America: Brave New World has been directly called out by the BDS movement (a nearly 20 year old movement created by Palestinians), and we have been asked to boycott it in its entirety.

A zionist settler has been cast. Disney itself has donated $2 million to Israeli relief groups.

it is incredibly saddening that we won't be able to watch one of our favourite's character's long awaited film, but our interest and love for this character, and for superheroes/comics/movies as a whole, are no where near more important then standing up alongside Palestinians, and doing all we can to help them and to listen to their requests.

Join me in boycotting the film. Pirate it if you must.

[fancylala4]

Well, Disney cancelled the Okoye spinoff.

It’s amazing how a company can fuck up a franchise that has given them the most accolades within the mcu. We all know why that is but it still sucks.

[agent13ronnie]

Alexei being a father figure for Natasha in the mcu 🤝 Bane and Talia being partnered together in the Nolan movies

Keep these women away from their abusers

[burn-4u]

The new fantastic four movie makes me so happy until I remember rdj is doom

[dalekofchaos]

Doctor Doom gets ruined AND WHITEWASHED AGAIN!

4 attempts to get Doctor Doom right

4

And we STILL can’t get this right

A master of magic and science. A man who rivals Doctor Strange and Reed Richards as the most powerful sorcerer and the smartest man alive. He rules an entire country with an army of Doombots. Considered to be one of the greatest Marvel villains. And they still can't get him right. They have to make him a fucking Tony Stark variant. Tony Stark is not Victor Von Doom and Doom is above Tony Stark.

Victor wearing the mask always is integral to his appeal and aura like Vader's mask. It not only hides his vain scars he caused due to his failures, but it closes him off from humanity and makes him believe he’s beyond it.

As far as I'm concerned Marvel Ultimate Alliance and EMH are the only good adaptations of Doom

Doctor Doom being a romani man with a background CENTERING his family's racial persecution. with his ethnicity at the forefront of his motivations and his tragedy. and they really just brought back Robert Downey Jr.

Being romani is INTEGRAL to doom’s character and without that he’s not doom. he NEEDS to be romani and played by a romani character. full stop, don't believe me? Read Book Of Dooms.

Since 1964 Victor von Doom has been established as a Romani character. His childhood was filled with antiziganism and his parents deaths were caused by it. This later led him to become Doctor Doom and overthrow the Latverian government to protect his people

I am so fucking sick and tired of this whitewashing bullshit and the ethnoerasure of Marvel characters.

The Maximoff Twins, The Ancient One, Moon Knight and now fucking Doom.

God fucking forbid an actual Romani actor PLAYS A ROMANI CHARACTER.

But no they pulled another fucking multiverse shit all so RDJ could return and it all feels like blackface from Tropic Thunder

I DON'T GIVE A FUCKING SHIT ABOUT ANTHONY STARK FROM EARTH-11029 OR INFAMOUS IRON MAN

If you wanted evil Iron Man so fucking bad, why didn't you just do Superior Iron Man?

The LAZIEST, DUMBEST, most CONTRIVED BULLSHIT casting ever, Marvel continues to not beat the whitewashing allegations. Doctor Doom deserved better.

Romani actor Charlie Clapman was right fucking there AND HE ENDORSED IT!

I'd even suggest Romani actor Óscar Jaenada as Doom. Again another Roma actor who's actively interested in playing Doom

And you know what? As bad as the 1994 movie was, Joseph Culp the first actor to play Doom in the Fantastic Four (1994) movie by Oley Sassone & Richard Corman. Culp was also white but he very clearly cared for the comics background of Victor von Doom

and you also know damn well they're going to erase everything about Magneto too that makes him who he is… which is his entire fucking background. how horrible of a person do you have to be to repeatedly disrespect the minorities who created these stories?

Doctor Doom is Roma Romani. He is not white. The MCU loves to whitewash its Roma and Jewish characters and it’s time we called them out for it. Dr Doom is not a white man, he is Roma!

They will never nail down the complexity of Victor Von Doom

Every year Doom goes to hell to fight Mephisto to rescue the soul of his mother. He finally won her soul with the help of Doctor Strange only for her to reject him.

No evil Stark replicant will ever fucking match the complexity of Victor Von Doom.

I don't care if this is a one time thing for RDJ. They specifically chose to do this when the fans were begging for a fucking Romani actor. It also doesn't fucking help that Marvel has erased nearly EVERY fucking ethnic character has been whitewashed.

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver: Erased Romani heritage and whitewashed. Moon Knight & Wiccan: Casted non-Jewish actors. Sabra: Featured in anything at all, and actress is an IDF soldier to make matters worse.

The MCU is full of ethnic erasure, military propaganda & racism. it’s disgusting this is continuing with Dr Doom’s casting. remember to continue to boycott marvel, because of the genocide they support by casting an iof solider to play a character from the zionist terrorist occupation

Dr Doom is one of those villains that it should be IMPOSSIBLE to fuck up but wasting him on a cheap Iron Man nostalgia casting pop might be the way

[jewishbarbies]

would love to see an mcu actor playing a canonically-jewish-character-turned-goy-for-the-screen respond to casting criticism with maturity and understanding some day. maybe an apology, but we won’t get ahead of ourselves.